Domain of Images - Elkins James
Domain of Images - Elkins James In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting.…
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Domain of Images - Elkins James
In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as rich and expressive as any canonical painting. This original and brilliant book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects--painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking--to the vast array of nonart images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology.
He urges scholars to adopt, instead, the far broader criteria of the young field of image studies. Using scores of illustrations as examples, he proposes a radically new way of thinking about visual analysis, one that relies on an object's own internal sense of organization.Elkins begins by demonstrating the arbitrariness of current criteria used by art historians for selecting images for study. After analyzing the philosophic underpinnings of this
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